Landslide victory for Macron
Emmanuel Macron won the French presidency last night, crushing Marine Le Pen, the far-right candidate, after a vicious contest that has ended decades of rule by established parties.
Mr Macron, 39, a pro-EU, free-trade proponent who made a bold pitch for power with no electoral experience, is France’s youngest new leader since Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799.
The victory marked a historic upheaval in the country’s political landscape and inflicted a reversal on the nationalist, anti-globalisation cause that has made inroads in the US and Europe.
Mr Macron, a former economy minister under President Hollande, won 66.06 per cent of the vote in the second-round run-off to Ms Le Pen’s 33.94 per cent.
A low turnout of 74 per cent and a record 12 per cent…
